Articles by Laura Smith

"i am the project, experience is the tool, life is the plane. i do not separate art and life—both are a series of progressive projects during which time, energy, and space are expelled and occupied. i am an artist. i am a writer. i am a performer. i am a liver.*" *as in an individual participating in the act of living, not the internal organ that secretes bile."

Daniel Siering and Mario Schuster collaborated on a brilliant piece of street art in a bucolic area of Potsdam, Germany. They wrapped a piece of plastic around a tree and, using the plastic as a canvas, they spray-painted in the strip...

The cathartic art of Cain Motter consists of melting, cutting and transforming credit cards from seemingly innocent plastic slivers into sculptures that reveal their underlying malevolence. One of his sculptures is characterized...

Who knew that a full head of hair would be such a great typographic medium! New York-undergrad Shurong Diao shaped her friend, Xingpei Wang’s long stands of hair into the lowercase letters of the sans-serif typeface, from a to...

Merging modern and traditional sculpture, Julie Moon’s ceramic work is hard to classify. Simultaneously ornamental, biological and edible: does one refer to her pieces as figures, objects, or food? Contextualizing familiar...

When looking at Philip Karlberg's still life photography one gets a sense of this Swedish artist’s exacting attention to detail combined with his distinctive imaginative flare. It’s amazing how Karlberg always manages...

It’s truly incredible that glass blowing, which can be traced back to the 16th century (BC), continues to be a relevant art technique in the 21st century. Aric Snee’s blown-glass iPod amplifier is an object that symbolically...

France-based Olivier De Sagazan is a multidisciplinary artist whose painting, performance and sculpture feed off and weave back into each other creating a distinct nightmarish aesthetic. He's probably most well known...

Contemplating Ashkan Honarvar’s imagery from his Face 5 series is difficult. On one hand, the images capture horribly maimed faces based off of World War II injuries. On the other hand, the injuries are created with Photoshop,...

You might be familiar with the dark subtle humor and spidery sketches of David Shigley, but are you familiar with his tattoos? The David Shigley ‘tattoo trend’ started when some of his fans sent Shrigley photos of his artwork...

Miami has been criticized for its lack of public spaces. In 2001 the collaborating duo, Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt completed 'The Living Room' in an attempt to create an intimate and inviting atmosphere instead of isolating...

Dawn Woolley’s performative self-portraits address the social constructs of identity, femininity, and sexuality, and how she, herself, fits into these roles as both a female and an artist. Woolley’s photos wittily analyze...

Sergio Silva's designs are simple, clever and elegant. In his chess set all the pieces are rectangular blocks; the rank is noted by the positioning and size of a hole that runs through each block. Though the pieces are untraditional,...

‘Umbrella Here’ creates an open forum for individuals to offer the snug security under their umbrellas to ease the drenched discomfort of umbrella-less strangers. The design allows people to be good samaritans and meet...

The latest development in the world of 3D printing is the handheld LIX pen. Similar to its predecessor, the 3Doodler, the LIX allows one to draw a 3D self-sustaining line in space. Its sleek and lightweight size distinguishes...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

Using the arabic alphabet as a his model, French artist, Julien Breton creates his own life-sized calligraphic images all over the world. His canvases are dark night-scapes, his paint is light, and and his brushes are variously-sized flashlights (sometimes overlaid with pigmented gelatin to create color). Capturing the motion with long exposure photography, the artist mimes out the calligraphy, waving the flashlight about in a sort-of dance. As one can imagine, some orchestration and practice are required for Breton to get the motions right. Though the pictures seem to be Photoshop-masterpieces, they are created solely with light. ...

The world is truly a beautiful place. As graphic artists, we see the beauty everywhere we look. It inspires us. Encourages us. And helps shape the many artistic projects that endlessly flow from our own colorful minds.
Not only does the world inspire us; we inspire each other. Artists feed off of other artists’ design energy. It fuels our creativity and sparks our passion. The end result is a planet full of designs as varied in style and substance as the artists who created them. And that’s where we come in.